A beachcomber did a ‘happy dance’ after this unusual discovery in Anchor Point
Ginger Frizzell was walking along the beach Wednesday in Anchor Point with camera in hand, as she does several times a
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Environment
With Anchorage icy and snowless, Iditarod officials shorten ceremonial start
Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race mushers will travel only 3 miles through Anchorage during Saturday’s ceremonial start instead of the traditional 11-mile
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Warmest winter in Russian history
The two lasts winters have been record warm in Russia. Last winter saw many heat records, but this winter has
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Ice-Blog: Arctic winter: warm, wet, weird
Here in Germany, the winter has seemed strange enough. We had flowers in bloom at Christmas, and people sneezing with
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Levels of methane increasing rapidly in the Arctic
The levels of the greenhouse gas methane are increasing more than expected at measuring stations both on Svalbard and in Southern
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Unbaking Alaska?
When I first went to Alaska in 2008, “Unbaking Alaska“ was the title of the reporting project on how climate
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Warming could release carbon locked in tundra
Year after year, the tundra covering the landscape of the far north has pulled carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere.
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Protecting people and polar bears from each other
It is an age old problem but one that has been getting worse with global warming. Polar bears need sea
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Ice road truck woes: off-course pickups fall victim to Big Lake
WASILLA – Several pickups have broken through the ice of Big Lake since early January, as many as three in the
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Arctic festival to draw attention to food insecurity, climate change
A tiny northern community is throwing a party to try to draw national and international attention to the effects of
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U.S. Army Corps reviews of North Slope oil project
A federal agency is launching an environmental review of plans by the Spanish oil company Repsol to develop what may be one
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Ice-Blog: Rising seas culprit – ice or heat?
My attention was caught this week by a study that ascertained that thermal expansion accounts for a much greater share
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Algae-related toxins found in Arctic sea mammals
Toxins produced by harmful algal blooms are showing up in Alaska marine mammals as far north as the Arctic
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What Fitbit-like devices tell us about polar bears
To survive the harsh conditions of the Arctic, polar bears roaming Alaska’s Beaufort Sea coastline subsist on the equivalent of
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Arctic sea ice hit record low for January
Sea ice extent over the Arctic last month was the lowest for any January in the satellite record, with freeze-up slowed
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